Long title

To provide for measures to promote meat safety and the safety of animal products; to establish and maintain essential national standards in respect of abattoirs; to regulate the importation and exportation of meat; to establish meat safety schemes; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Table of contents

SECTION	TITLE
1.	Definitions
2.	National executive officer
3.	Delegation and assignment of powers and duties by national executive officer
4.	Designation of assignees
5.	Assignment of certain functions to provincial executives
6.	Suspension of assignment
7.	Prohibition of slaughter of animals at places other than abattoirs, and exemptions
8.	Approval of slaughter facility
9.	Withdrawal or lapsing of registration certificate
10.	Instructions with regard to operation of abattoir
11.	Essential national standards
12.	Meat safety schemes
13.	Restriction on importation of meat
14.	Restriction on exportation of meat
15.	Routine inspections
16.	Entry and search of premises
17.	Confidentiality
18.	Appeals
19.	Offences and penalties
20.	Forfeiture
21.	Presumptions and evidence
22.	Regulations
23.	Delegation
24.	Defects in form
25.	Repeal of laws, and savings
26.	Short title
Sch. 1.	SCHEDULE 1. ANIMALS TO WHICH THIS ACT APPLIES (SECTION 1(2))
Sch. 2.	SCHEDULE 2. LAWS REPEALED OR AMENDED (SECTION 25)

 
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